Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1994 [PAGE 275]

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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to award construction contracts to the lowest responsible bidder for each division provided that the total of the bids received did not exceed $490,000 for remodeling Clark Hall. Bids were received on February 14 and 16, 1995, in the total amount of $602,885, which exceeded the authorized total by $112,885. While the total of the bids received is above the original estimate, the Housing Division wants to award the contracts and has made funds available for the additional cost. Accordingly, the president of the University, with the concurrence of the appropriate administrative officers, recommends the project budget be increased to $735,000 and that the following contracts be awarded for the Clark Hall remodeling project. The award in each case is to the lowest responsible bidder on its base bid plus acceptance of the indicated alternates. Division I — General The Petry-Kuhne Company, Champaign

Base Bid

$442 700

Alt. G-l Alt. G-3

Division II — Mechanical McWilliams Mechanical, Champaign Division III — Electrical Witte Electric Co., Champaign Total

5 000 24 175 $471 875

Base Bid Base Bid

64 400 66 610 $602 885

Funds are available in the Housing Division's Building Maintenance Reserve Account. A schedule of the bids received and a description of the alternate have been filed with the secretary of the board for record.

On motion of Mrs. Calder, these recommendations were approved by the following vote: Aye, Mrs. Calder, Mr. Engelbrecht, Dr. Gindorf, Mr. Lamont, Ms. Lopez, Mrs. O'Malley, Ms. Reese; no, none; absent, Dr. Bacon, Governor Edgar, Mrs. Gravenhorst. (The student advisory vote was: Aye, Mr. Didato-Castillo, Mr. Rose; no, none.)

Increase in Project Budget, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall, Urbana

(26) On November 13, 1992, the board authorized the comptroller to award construction contracts to the lowest responsible bidder for each division of work for the Temple Hoyne Buell Hall project at the Urbana campus, provided that the total of the bids received was within the construction budget of $11,267,000. On November 19 and 24, 1992, bids were received for the Temple Hoyne Buell Hall project that were within the authorized total. The comptroller approved award of the contracts and these were reported to the board at its January 15, 1993, meeting. In January 1995, a meeting was held with the School of Architecture, the Departments of Landscape Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning, and others to review the current status of construction relative to completion and occupancy of Temple Hoyne Buell Hall. At that time, various items that were originally included in the project as additive alternates but not awarded were discussed in addition to items required to meet current technology and codes. The items consisted of carpeting in the administrative areas and four studios above the Plym